Darwin, Charles Robert

1809 - Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England on the 12th of February.

1817 - Attended the school runned by the preachers of the Unitarian Chapel.

1818 - At the age of nine, he entered Anglican Shrewsbury School.

1825 - He was an apprentice to his father, a doctor. He attended University of Edinburgh to study medicine and learned taxidermy from John Edmonstone, a freed black slave who told him exciting tales of the South American rainforest.

1827 - His father enrolled him in a Bachelor of Arts course at Christ's College, University of Cambridge to qualify as a clergyman but he preferred riding and shooting to studying. He met Reverend John Stevens Henslow, professor of botany.

1831-1836 - Accompanied H. M. S. Beagle as naturalist on voyage throughout much of Southern Hemisphere.

1837 - Elected to the Council of the Geographical Society on the 7th of February.

1838 - He went to Scotland to have a break and did some research works.

1839 - Elected as Fellow of the Royal Society on the 24th of January.

- Married Emma Wedgwood at Maer in an Anglican ceremony on the 29th of January.

1849 - Went to Malvern to improve his chronic ill health.

1853 - Earned the Royal Society's Royal Medal and it made his reputation as a biologist.